Sunday, February 24, 2008

A classy Irish performance set their season back on track against Scotland at Croke Park, in a game which produced an incredible piece of skill which led to a fantastic Tommy Bowe try.

The on form Ulster winger finished it off, but Leicester fullback and wing Geordan Murphy started it with a great counter attack and flipped pass, which popped up perfectly for flyhalf supremo Ronan O'Gara to pull of a quite superb flick of the ball that was pinpoint accurate and would normally only be reserved for the practice field.

A great result for Ireland at Croke Park, with this being one of the tries of the Six Nations so far, mainly because of that piece of brilliance from O'Gara.

To the second comment from above shane williams did score a try special against Italy. The best individual try yet.

And to the guy talking about Noon's tackle it waas a great tackle but the try shouldn't be awarded because it's Noon who does the forward. Heymans already made the pass and Noon hit it with his hands when making the tackle.Anyway Enland was better than France and they deserved victory.

Good performance by the Irish, but improvements are STILL needed, was some great passages of play, but the poor Scots are in disarray, hope the improve.I think the Italians were in hard luck, if their backline could have scored on the couple of breaks they made could have been closer, but Wales' finishing was superb. England were v good against the French who looked dis-interested.

The double movement rule is that once you're on the ground you can propel yourself forward. If your momentum carries you forward that's fine but you can't crawl along on your knees. Once you're on the ground you're then allowed to place the ball. No rule about the direction though, because it makes sense to let you place it forward for a try.

The thing with this was whether he propelled himself forward. He wriggled a bit but he still had momentum, it'd have been very harsh not to give it. Great try, although if O'Gara's pass didn't go to hand people would have given out. Thankfully it did go to hand.

any chance of getting Shane Horgan's winning try against ENgland in Twickenham in 2006 up?THAT was a great try, length of the field, was also a big stretch and considering it was in the last few minutes to win the match & Triple Crown I reckon it is a great try.

Sorry, but regarding the "double movement"... does that only apply to the movement of the legs? Because from one of the angles you can clearly see him planting on his right forearm and propelling forward, and then landing on it a second time as he places the ball over the try line.

As an aside, thanks RD for having this site! I just started playing last fall and am pretty obsessed with the sport. Having a single place for vids to watch to learn some more of the game is awesome!